Listen, weed is NOTHING compared to acid. Acid trips can go on for days, and if you have a bad one you'll never be the same again. I would highly recommend you try something less intense first- Salvia, for example.
You sound like a smart person though, so I'm not going to tell you not to do it, it's your choice- but I think you should try something a little less intense beforehand, so you know what's going to happen. If you freak out on acid you're stuck with it for days. I knew a guy who never even tried weed, went straight into acid.
He was tripping for about 72 hours (he had like, three tabs, idiot) and he hallucinated snakes all over him, and cut himself several times trying to get them off. He also got really violent because he thought we were demons trying to kill him, and he sat at the top of the stairs crying because he thought he was on the edge of the abyss and he was looking into the pits of hell :P It can do bad stuff to you, man. I know a woman who never came down from it, it just broke her up, mentally.
She was genetically predispositioned to develop Schizophrenia, her dad had it- and acid triggered it in the worst way possible. She was hearing voices and seeing people on the trip, but she couldn't tell when she came down from it because it's been happening ever since and that was about two years ago. You're obviously intelligent, but just be careful and make sure you know exactly how much and what you're using beforehand.
Don't mix drugs, either- I took weed and coke in the same night, and landed in hospital. Weed was telling my brain to slow down my heart, and coke was telling it to speed it up so it was beating irregularly and I passed out from oxygen starvation. I'm lucky to be here :P Don't aim to get as high as you can, start off small.
If you're out of your depth things can go from bad to worse very, very quickly. It can make bad memories of the past re-surface, and then you're on your way to a bad trip. If anybody in your family has a history of mental illness, I strongly suggest you give it a miss.
Just... go easy, okay? Only take as much as you think you can handle, if you take too much you can kill yourself. I don't want to tell you not to, I just want to make sure you know what you're doing before you jump into it.
Don't freak out! :).
It might be smart to have a sober person with you, maybe smoke someone out so that they will stay with you and your friend. When I first did acid it was me and two girls who tripped pretty hard, so I ended up taking responsibility for them the whole time which was kinda lame. Smoking weed before is actually a good idea because it gets you in a good mood.
Thats the key, you need to be in a good mood. You can't be concerned that your parents will come down, and you can't have any stress on your mind. It could be a little frightening anyway, but it will probably be mostly awesome.
Try to have everything you need with you so you don't have to go upstairs for anything. Also keep in mind that you will trip for several hours and won't be able to go to sleep for like up to 8 hours after you take it. So either start early or prepare to be up all night.
Have fun!
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